Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Eastside

In an effort to show how transportation, open space, planning and other issues are intertwined with the health, culture, livability and strength of a community, Streetsblog and The California Endowment teamed to bring Streetsblog’s coverage to a hyper-local level in Boyle Heights and South Los Angeles. Sahra Sulaiman is Communities Editor for Streetsblog Los Angeles and oversees work in South Los Angeles and Boyle Heights. Her work and that of our former Boyle Heights-specific writer Kris Fortin can be found here. Contact Sahra at sahra[at]streetsblog.org or on twitter: @sahrasulaiman.

Celebrating Good Food Day with Bikes and a Garden Tour

By Carlos Morales | May 7, 2012 | 2 Comments

The Salesian Boys & Girls Club teamed up with the Eastside Bike Club (EBC) to host a Community Garden Bike Ride on March 31 as part of Mayor Villaraigosa’s “Good Food Day 2012” – A day of Service in recognition of the late Cesar Chavez. The goal of this community bike ride was to expose […]

Psyco de Mayo, Super Luna Ride

By Kristopher Fortin | May 4, 2012 | 2 Comments

Cinco de Mayo is often celebrated in bars, with people donning red, green and white apparel, and drinking tequila. While people miss out the meaning of Cinco de Mayo – the Battle of Puebla anyone?- the best party this Cinco de Mayo can be found tomorrow night on a bike, and looking up at the […]

CicLAvia Heading Deeper Through the Eastside, but When?

By Kristopher Fortin | May 2, 2012 | 3 Comments

For CicLAvia, figuring out how, when and where to expand has been its biggest challenge. While CicLAvia is free to attend, it costs a lot of money to push past the current 10-mile route, closing streets to cars, providing police support and re-routing car drivers who find entrences and exits from the freeway blocked. Despite […]

The Spontaneous Activities on 4th Street During CicLAvia

By Kristopher Fortin | Apr 17, 2012 | 1 Comment

In Boyle Heights, CicLAvia is sometimes the first chance for people in the neighborhood to venture off the sidewalk and onto the streets on a bicycle, or provides local businesses an opportunity to get creative in the way they get involved in the ten and a half mile “open street” block party. One example came […]

Boyle Heights Guide to CicLAvia

By Kristopher Fortin | Apr 13, 2012 | 1 Comment

Though Hollenbeck Park is the jumping off point for many people in the Eastside to experience CicLavia, there are organized bike rides starting out on the eastside, and parties in the street itself, and intersections that will be teeming with activities both on and off the route. At the park itself, CicLAvia has a merchandise booth […]

Fixing Bicycles in a Garden: Ovarian Psycos’ ResuWRENCHion

By Kristopher Fortin | Apr 12, 2012 | 5 Comments

When Rey Veitia works on people’s bicycles at Bici Libre, he’s used to the sounds of traffic outside the co-op. Volunteering at last Saturday’s ResuWRENCHion at Proyecto Jardin in Boyle Heights was a nice change of pace. The car horns of Downtown Los Angeles were replaced by the sounds of children laughing and bouncing a […]

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